Corvus moriorum moriorum Forbes, 1892
Chatham Islands Maori crow, Chatham Islands Maori raven, Chatham Island raven, Extinct New Zealand raven (Worthy & Holdaway, 1993:214)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Palaeocorax moriorum Forbes, 1892; Corvus moriorum Forbes, 1892
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Holocene (Gill, 2003)
Distribution
Chatham Islands (& South Island? & Auckland Islands?), New Zealand
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Worthy and Holdaway (1994:378) reported C. moriorum from Hawkes Cave, South Island.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa:
Media
Above: Chatham Islands Raven. Corvus moriorum. From the series: Extinct Birds of New Zealand., 2004, Masterton, by Paul Martinson. Purchased 2006. © Te Papa. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Te Papa (2006-0010-1/15)
References
Original scientific description:
Forbes, H. O. (1892). Aphanapteryx and other remains in the Chatham Islands. Nature 46: 252-253.
Other references:
Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2010). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica (4th ed.). Ornithological Society of New Zealand & Te Papa Press, Wellington. [p. 300]
Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2022). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand (5th edition). Ornithological Society of New Zealand Occasional Publication No. 1. Wellington: Ornithological Society of New Zealand. [p. 217]
Dawson, E. W. (1964). Antarctic oceanography. Antarctic (June): 430-432. [possible record from the Auckland Islands]
Gill, B. J. (2003). Osteometry and systematics of the extinct New Zealand ravens (Aves: Corvidae: Corvus). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 1: 43-58.
Holdaway, Richard N., Worthy, Trevor H. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2001). A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 28: 119-187.
Millener, P. R. (1981). The Quaternary avifauna of the North Island, New Zealand. Unpubl. PhD thesis, Department of Geology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Millener, P. R. (1999). The history of the Chatham Islands’ bird fauna of the last 7000 years—a chronicle of change and extinction. In Olson SL, ed., Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington DC ., 4–7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89: 85-109.
Miskelly, Colin M., Forsdick, Natalie J., Gill, Brian J., Palma, Ricardo L., Rawlence, Nicolas J. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2022). Amendments to the 2010 Checklist of the birds of New Zealand. Ornithological Society of New Zealand Occasional Publication No. 2. Wellington: Ornithological Society of New Zealand.
Robertson, H. A., Baird, K. A., Elliott, G. P., Hitchmough, R. A., McArthur, N. J., Makan, T. D., Miskelly, Colin M., O’Donnell, C. F. J., Sagar, P. M., Scofield, R. P., Taylor, G. A. and Michel, P. (2021). Conservation status of birds in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 36. Department of Conservation, Wellington. 43 pp.
Hugh Robertson, John Dowding, Graeme Elliott, Rod Hitchmough, Colin Miskelly, Colin O’Donnell, Ralph Powlesland, Paul Sagar, Paul Scofield, Graeme Taylor. (2013). Conservation status of New Zealand birds, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 4. 22 pp.
Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild. (1907). Extinct birds: an attempt to write in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times, that is within the last six or seven hundred years: to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. London: Hutchinson & Co. XXIX + 243 pp. [p. 1]
Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]
Scofield, R. Paul, Mitchell, Kieren J., Wood, Jamie R., De Pietri, Vanesa L., Jarvie, Scott, Llamas, Bastien and Cooper, Alan. (2017). The Origin and Phylogenetic Relationships of the New Zealand Ravens. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106: 136-143. [Abstract]
Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Worthy, Trevor H. (1998). Fossil avifaunas from the Old Neck and Native Island, Stewart Island-Polynesian middens or natural sites? Records of the Canterbury Museum 12: 49-82.
Worthy, Trevor H. and Holdaway, Richard N. (1993). Quaternary fossil faunas from caves in the Punakaiki area, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 23(3): 147-254.
Worthy, T. H. and Holdaway, R. N. (1994). Quaternary fossil faunas from caves in Takaka Valley and on Takaka Hill, northwest Nelson, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand 24(3): 297-391.
Worthy, Trevor H. and Mildenhall, D. C. (1989). A late Otiran-Holocene paleoenvironment reconstruction based on cave excavations in northwest Nelson, New Zealand. N.Z. Journal of Geology and Geophysics 32: 243-253.